Essays And PoemsRead Books Ltd, 2013 M07 8 - 180 pages Jones Very was an American poet and essayist associated with the American Transcendentalism movement. Here stands a wonderful collection on Very's essays and poetry. Essays include: Epic Poetry, Shakespeare and Hamlet. Poems include: To the Humming Bird, To the Fossil Flower, The Tree, Beauty, The New Birth, The Soldier, The Earth and many many more. |
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... thoughts with limitless existence, gives to our mental struggles a greatness they could not have before had. We each of us feel within our own bosoms a great, an immortal foe, which, if we have subdued, we may meet with calmness every ...
... thoughts with limitless existence, gives to our mental struggles a greatness they could not have before had. We each of us feel within our own bosoms a great, an immortal foe, which, if we have subdued, we may meet with calmness every ...
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... thought and action is the widest, and therefore it is then alone that the events occupying that interval can be best described. The great struggle of the epic poets since the time of Homer has been against this narrowing of their field ...
... thought and action is the widest, and therefore it is then alone that the events occupying that interval can be best described. The great struggle of the epic poets since the time of Homer has been against this narrowing of their field ...
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... thought becoming the heroic character of his own time; the other, for not placing his action beyond the strict bounds of history. In regard to each we think the critics have erred; for neither the time nor the characters could have been ...
... thought becoming the heroic character of his own time; the other, for not placing his action beyond the strict bounds of history. In regard to each we think the critics have erred; for neither the time nor the characters could have been ...
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... thoughts that wander through eternity,'' at the sight of which we lose all sense of the material terrors of that fiery hell around him, and compared with which the physical conflict of the archangels is a mockery. It is not so much that ...
... thoughts that wander through eternity,'' at the sight of which we lose all sense of the material terrors of that fiery hell around him, and compared with which the physical conflict of the archangels is a mockery. It is not so much that ...
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... thoughts pregnant with celestial fire, and sends them forth, wherever the winds of heaven blow or its light penetrates, the winged messengers of his pleasure. The narrow walls of patriotism are broken down, and he is a brother on whom ...
... thoughts pregnant with celestial fire, and sends them forth, wherever the winds of heaven blow or its light penetrates, the winged messengers of his pleasure. The narrow walls of patriotism are broken down, and he is a brother on whom ...
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admiration Aristotle beauty become beneath bloom bosom breast breath child childlike Christ Christian consciousness creations dæmon Dante’s dark death Divine doth e’en earth endeavor to show epic interest epic poem epic poetry eternal exhibit existence Father feel felt flower forever genius gift give God’s Hamlet hand Harfleur hast hear heart heaven heroes heroic character heroic spirit Homer hour human mind Iago Iliad impulse influence innocence light live look Lucan Macbeth man’s Menelaus Milton mind’s motive natural action nature’s never night o’er objects onward ourselves outward Paradise Lost perfect physical play poet poet’s Polonius possessed praise present rendered rest robes Sartor Resartus seems selfishness sense Shakspeare Shakspeare’s mind soliloquy song soul speak stand strange stream strongly sublime sweet tell thee thine things Thou may’st thought tongue tree unconscious utter Virgil visible voice wind wonder words